Meet Kendra Walters, who examines the mobility of microbes. These little dudes are an important part of *cue music* the circle of liiiiiife! They eat all the dead stuff, so all the new stuff can grow! But how the heck did they get there? Well, with lots of fun (existentially dreadful) long term studies, Kendra hopes to find out! Listen to how she battles her perfectionism in the face of months long experiments. Spoiler alert, the solution is cheese. The melty-gooey kind.